meet

/miːt/

US pronunciation

American sound/miːt/

meet

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Long vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> meet

Myanmar meaning

(v) တွေ့ဆုံ

Full entry

meet / mi:t / v (pt, pp met /met/)

၁။ (က) (no passive) တွေ့သည်။ ဆုံသည်။ ရင်ဆိုင်သည်။ I hope we'll meet again soon. ❍ We met (each other) quite by chance. ❍ I met her in the street. ❍ An amazing sight met their eyes as they entered the room. (ခ) တွေ့သည်။ ဆုံသည်။ စည်းဝေး သည်။ The committee meets regularly / on Fridays. ❍ The Prime Minister met his Japanese opposite number for talks. (ဂ) (အချိန်းအချက် ပြုလုပ်၍) တွေ့သည်၊ ဆုံသည်။ Let's meet after work and go for a drink.
၂။ စောင့်လင့်သည်။ ကြိုသည်။ Will you meet me at the station/off the train? ❍ The hotel bus meets all incoming flights.
၃။ (no passive) အသိအကျွမ်း ဖြစ်သည်။ တွေ့သည်။ ဆုံမိသည်။ Where did you (first) meet your husband? ❍ Meet Susan (ie as an informal style of introduction). ❍ Pleased to meet you. ❍ I don't think we've met (before).
၄။ (no passive) တွေ့ဆုံယှဉ်ပြိုင်သည်။ တွေ့သည်။ City and United met/City met United in the final last year.
၅။ တွေ့ကြုံသည်။ ဆုံမိသည်။ ကြုံကြိုက်သည်။ meet difficulties/ disaster / one's death ❍ Others have met similar problems. ❍ We've met this verb form in a previous lesson.
၆။ ဆုံသည်။ ထိသည်။ ဆက်မိသည်။ Their eyes met (ie They looked at each other at the same time). ❍ His hand met hers. ❍ This belt doesn't meet round my waist any more!
၇။ ဖြည့်ဆည်းပေးသည်။ လုပ်ပေးသည်။ ပြီးစီးသည်။ Can we meet all their requirements/ conditions? ❍ I can't possibly meet that deadline.
၈။ ပေးသည်။ ပေးချေသည်။ The cost will be met by the company.
n (esp US ) အားကစားပြိုင်ပွဲ။ an athletics meet. Compare MEETING ၃
❏ meet sb's eye(s) [IDM ] (esp in negative sentences) စေ့စေ့ကြည့်သည်။ She was afraid to meet my eye(s).
❏ meet sb halfway [IDM ] စေ့စပ်သည်။ အပေးအယူ လုပ်သည်။ If you agree to fix it all up I'll meet you halfway with the cost.
❏ meet one's Maker [IDM ] (esp joc ) သေသည်။ Poor Fred's gone to meet his Maker.
❏ meet up (with sb) [PHRV ] တွေ့သည်။ ဆုံမိသည်။ Let's meet up again later for a drink. ❍ I met up with an old school friend in London.
❏ meet one's Waterloo [IDM ] အကြီးအကျယ် ရှုံးသည်။ နာလန်မထူအောင် ရှုံးသည်။
❏ meet with sb [PHRV ] (esp US ) တွေ့သည်။ The President met with senior White House aides.
❏ meet with sth [PHRV ] ကြုံရသည်။ ကြုံတွေ့သည်။ Her proposal met with much hostility / criticism. ❍ I met with much kindness among these poor people.
❏ meet sth with sth [PHRV ] တုံ့ပြန်သည်။ It's too easy to meet aggression with more aggression.
❏ there is more in/to sb/sth than meets the eye [IDM ] တိမ်မယောင်နှင့်နက်သော၊ လွယ်မယောင်နှင့် ခက်သော အရာ။

More examples

I’ll meet you in the bar later.
[meet for] : We’re meeting for lunch tomorrow.
[meet to do something] : I’d like to meet to talk about your future.
You’ll never guess who I met on the plane.
Have you met my wife?
I think they met at college.
The president is meeting world leaders at a summit next week.
[meet to do something] : The council will meet next week to decide what action to take.
We’ll come out to the airport to meet you.
[meet someone off the train/boat/plane etc] : Could you meet Maggie off the train in London?
The two teams met last year in the final.
They are likely to meet Barcelona in the next round.
We tried to investigate but met a wall of silence.
[meet (with) opposition/approval/resistance etc] : The bill met strong opposition from the Tories.
[be met by/with something] : The officials were met by complaints about joblessness and crime.
The two rivers meet just north of the town.
The line where the land meets the sky
This technology can meet the challenges of the 21st century.
[meet the needs of someone/something] : The water won’t meet the needs of the local population.
Will the government be able to meet their spending targets?
My salary is only just enough to meet our living expenses.
Their eyes met long enough for him to see the warning.
She was finding it hard to meet his gaze.
Her lips met mine.

Synonyms

get together, convene, assemble, gather, congregate, rally, meet up, abut, accommodated, accost, adhere, adjoin, affront, answer, appear, applicable, approach, appropriate, apt, athletic event, be introduced, be present, be presented, border, brush against, bump into, carry out, chance, chance on, clash, coincide, collect, collide, come across, come together, come up against, come up to, competition, comply, conflict, conformed, confront, connect, contact, contest, converge, cope with, cross, dig up, discharge, encounter, endure, engage, enter in, equal, equitable, event, execute, expedient, experience, face, fair, fall in with, felicitous, find, fit, fitting, flock, foregather, front, fulfill, get to know, go through, good, grapple, gratify, greet, handle, happen, happen on, happy, hit, intersect, join, just, light, link, link up, luck, make a meet, make acquaintance, match, measure up, meet face to face, meeting, muster, open, perform, proper, reach, reconciled, rendezvous, rendezvous with, reunite, right, rival, rub eyeballs, run across, run into, run up against, salute, satisfy, see, show, sit, strike, stumble, suffer, suffice, suitable, sustain, tie, timely, touch, touch shoulders, tournament, tourney, tumble, tussle, undergo, unite, wrestle

Antonyms

agreement, avoid, calm, cancel, disconnect, disjoin, disperse, disregard, diverge, divide, dodge, evade, fail, hide, immoral, improper, inadequate, inappropriate, leave, let go, lose, miss, neglect, peace, release, scatter, separate, shun, spread, surrender, unfair, unfasten, unfit, unfitting, unjust, unseemly, unsuitable, unsuited, yield